Endtown by Aaron Neathery for July 06, 2012

PETEY: Wait, something strange happened to Flask – and what about Linda and DV?

And watch the ship land right in the middle of the Topsider dome. Mr. Talky Face: “Well, you did say anywhere…”Wally: D’oh!

This one isn’t as “wait” wrenching as usual .But it gives a miraculous (lovely word isn’t it) amount of ideas. Should we hold a contest to see who comes closest to Aaron’s plot?I guess that ……not enough room for all my guesses. OK,How fast can Petey get Back from where ever to rescue Linda and Flask and Dv?Blessed Be

Aaron, as usual, doesn’t seem to care.

Well, the ship’s departing With some members not on board Like the Voyager, they’re starting To get back were DV’s stored In the cooler, on the plain That poor head can’t stand a lot For it will cook DV’s brain If that Igloo gets too hot Linda’s likely to be better off She knows the desert well But since her suit she’s had to doff She might go though some hell What season is it, anyway? What lattitude, this site? The ship’s gone sideways from the fray With missiles still in flight… =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum Charter member of the Consortium to get Aaron a Tablet

Wally: “Uh, ship? Ship?”Marx: “It instantaneously transferred”.Wally: “I can see that.”Marx: “Maybe you should have been less specific in your command.”Holly: “Yawn. Gee, I must have been asleep. Wally, why are we falling? Where’s the ship?”

IS Petey on board? What if the ship transfers an instant before Petey gets through the door and he’s the only thing left in that part of the sky when the missiles arrive?

If Petey doesn’t make contact then ….

oops!

Frame #3, Night Ranger. Petey’s on board.

Good job folks. Entown’s at #25 and Doc Rat is at #26. Keep voting!

Okay, what’s with all the lines on my last post? I didn’t know we had a censor on staff.

“Okay, what’s with all the lines on my last post? I didn’t know we had a censor on staff.”You might have accidentally included a tag for “strike through”. If you want, just copy your previous comment, delete it, and paste in the text in a new comment.

Likely to end up in Dupont, PA.

Plenty of time for a transfer. Not so big a cliffhanger this week. Hmmm, let’s see……Linda sees something fall from the ship and goes to investigate (taking the brain-in-a-box with her). She finds Flask, who’s in bad shape and once again has tasted failure (probably no longer angry – just resigned , if still conscious that is). Both see the ship disappear as the missiles explode and figure the ship is done (despite a lack of debris). In her delerium, Flask rambles on about her past (and maybe Petey’s as well) as TSer transporters approach. The ship reappears just in time to save the three and disappears again. Ya think I’m going way out on a limb here? :)

Just makes you want to slap AM and say move or something!

Hey all, I just entered into a new commission with Aaron (Neathery, not Marx ;-) ). I’m starting with the Al and Gustine storyline and am asking Aaron to do a 4" X 4" head and shoulders for individual characters, starting with Al, Hank, a TSer in bio-suit, and Gustine. Every few weeks, I’ll order 3 or 4 new characters. He’s asking $40 per picture – as usual, more than reasonable and much more affordable than the bigger art pieces. Probably best of all, they’ll be quick for him to do (economically expedient). They’re kinda like cereal box prizes. . .one inside each specially marked box, collect all 80. I’m dedicating a wall in my TV room and will try to collect all the story characters to date, including things like a personnel transporter, dittos (gnashing teeth), a MUTT, the multiple-eyed monster encountered by Al early on, etc. I’m foregoing the one-of-a-kind thing and Aaron will have full rights to the product, so if you’d like to order PLEASE DO! I’ll try to update as I order new characters, so y’all will know what’s out there. The way I figure it, this should keep Aaron employed to near retirement and everyone can get a personal piece of Endtown..

If that was the real Flask that fell, and she survived, she’s going to have some real conflicts with having to travel with Linda and Harvey. (Yes, I’m naming the RV Harvey. More personal. Maybe he can be transferred into the body of a rabbit. Jack could use a brain.) She has reasons to really hate them both, especially Harvey, who is now “the other ‘woman’”. It’s going to test her resolve and integrity to not kill or abandon them.As to why we didn’t see her hit the ground, probably there wasn’t a ground to hit there. Dittos seem to be more common that we thought, so if the ship has its own, and Marx has his own, and there’s a wild bunch in Hillside, then other unknown parties can have them. One unknown party could be an underground community at that location, and they opened a cloaked door for Flask to fall through. She could have just gone down a rabbit hole.If Flask and Linda and Harvey are stranded topside, then there’s a good chance the Topsiders will capture them, which would be an interesting storyline. At some point Linda may need to plug Harvey into something. She may have the knowledge to do that. We know Flask doesn’t, and probably wouldn’t want to.

Petey’s inside – looks like he’s trying to warn AM and Holly (still peacefully sleeping through it all). I see no falling body in panel 4 so Flask is safe somewhere… Wonder if Linda will take the cooler and walk over to town…

Petey knew how fast to go and where he was stopping. He probably saw the missiles coming and that’s probably why his almost panicky look. Maybe the IET won’t go very far if it isn’t told where. I’m just happy that they will probably not get hit since the command was out before the missiles.

I thought Petey took Linda and the head-in-box to somewhere else on the ship—why would he have taken them off to the ground?? At least that’s the way it looked to me—I’ll have to go back now and look again…..

and of course all this is assuming that Flask survived her little blow back or whatever……

Thanks. Yes, Aaron has already thought of that. SHould be a “Your favorite character” t-shirt thing fairly soon.

Will our pals get away in time? Will Flask reappear? Will Wally become the Captain? Will Holly sleep through it all? Will Petey save the day? What about Linda and the brain in the box? And, what about Aaron Marx? Will he reveal what the book he is reading? Remember kids…to tune in on Monday for the further…. EXCITING ADVENTURES OF ENDTOWN!

Hmm. If it ported inside the dome, then any bacteria/virus on board would instantly contaminate the dome… it… would be chaos and insanity, and nothing like what Wally would want… I hope that’s not the intention >.<

If you look carefully at panel 3, you can see Petey’s trail - he is flying up the hallway and just made a right angle turn to reach AM & Holly.

Really wish Wally had been more specific. For all we know “Anywhere” could be taken by the computer as ‘another world’, ‘under the ocean’ or, worse ‘three feet to the left.’

I’ve not yet attended a con for SF Nor Dragon-con, Pony-con … what cons are left? I’ve been now to Anthrocon, meeting these gents And you, of course! But I’ve made no Con-plans since. But as for the “filk” business, I do a bit: I’ve recrafted songs from Pixar’s SF hit And to see just one (and avoid all those links) Here’s one rework of a tune by The Kinks =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum Charter member of the Consortium to get Aaron a Tablet

Jenner – in the event you see this – For some reason when I go to the docrat.com.au site today, it’s giving me this gosh-awful warning about the site being reported as an Attack Page ! I have the option to ignore the warning, but thought I’d mention it here to see if anyone else is having the same result.